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24 Faubourg , Hermes

post #1 of 13
11/26/06 at 3:36pm
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wow. I had a chance to sample this fragrance today and what came to mind was that it is like a kinder, gentler Mitsouko,and decidedly wearable, at least for me. Is that sandalwood I am smelling? Amber? Whatever that warm ambiance is, I love it. This is a very womanly, elegant fragrance.
I would be curious to know what others think of it compared to Mitsouko.
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post #2 of 13
11/26/06 at 4:50pm
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Originally Posted by rtamara41

wow. I had a chance to sample this fragrance today and what came to mind was that it is like a kinder, gentler Mitsouko,and decidedly wearable, at least for me. Is that sandalwood I am smelling? Amber? Whatever that warm ambiance is, I love it. This is a very womanly, elegant fragrance.
I would be curious to know what others think of it compared to Mitsouko.

So you think 24 Faubourg smells like Mitsouko? Well perhaps... I own a bottle of Mitsouko, but I rarely ever feel inclined to spray it on myself. It's just not me. In fact, there is only a small handful of fragrances that I can incontestably and unequivocally label as: not being me, and both Mitsouko and 24 Faubourg fall into this category. Now, whereas Mitsouko is something I can still see myself wearing on occasion, (I just know that there will be a time and place for me and Mitsouko to show up together), there is no way I would ever see myself willingly wanting to wear 24 Faubourg.

I love both sandalwood and amber, so there's got to be something else in there that makes this small so bad on me. But believe me BAD it was! When I tested it, I could not wait to wash it off: so I ended up using those little alcohol soaked napkins you use to sanitize your hands to get rid of the scent (that's all I had in my car)... of course, this only made matters worse. And as an aside: I've never been so repulsed by my own scent before or after that -- not even when I layered Black Cashmere with Iris Noir ;. And I never rush off to wash any fragrance off before giving it full respect to fully develop and mature and blossom on my skin -- but, goodness! there were not going to be any good experiences with this! Not on my skin!).
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post #3 of 13
11/26/06 at 5:05pm
I have a cautious relationship with Mitsouko and cannot get near 24, Faubourg, which is too rich and "eggy" for me in the same way Joy is. Or perhaps I am not grown up enough to appreciate it, but while Mitsouko has always seemed a bit bohemian and reckless, Faubourg seems the stuff of careful artifice, like a very constructed coiffure and a woman who'd not leave her maison without the de rigueur Hermes scarf (that never goes astray in a brisk wind). I think the trouble is a class relationship. I am a peasant in front of it and I don't find it effortlessly chic. The effort of it shows, it's like showplace full of greatly deliberated acquisitions and the manicure of old, very old, money. Plus, it wants a car and driver, or a barouche.

At least on my planet. Others wear it with ease and beauty.
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post #4 of 13
11/26/06 at 6:24pm
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I have always loved 24 Foubourg. I bought it when it first launched and it is one of the few I have had to restock. My wardrobe would be incomplete without it sitting amongst its Hermes companions. I had never thought about it in comparison to Mitsouko, but the top and middle notes do have some similarities, but they take different forks in the road when they hit the base notes. It does have amber in the base, plus sandalwood, patchouli and vanilla. (I had to look it up.) I have a dysfunctional nose and an unstructured lifestyle, so I'm not always sure what I smelling and I don't necessarily associate perfumes with a particular occasion, age or atmosphere. I'm savvy enough to not wear Pink Sugar to a black tie affair but if I'm headed to the grocery in jeans and a sweater and I'm in the mood for 24 Faubourg, then off we go.

From OsMoz --

24 Faubourg:
Top note : \tBergamot, Orange, Peach, Hyacinth
Middle note :\tTiare Flower, Orange Flower, Jasmine, Orris
Base note : \tSandal, Patchouli, Amber, Vanilla

Mitsouko:
Top note : \tBergamot, Lemon, Mandarin, Neroli \t
Middle note :\tPeach, Rose, Clove, Ylang-Ylang
Base note : \tOakmoss, Benzoin, Vetiver, Cinnamom
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post #5 of 13
11/26/06 at 7:02pm
I don't own 24 Faubourg so can't do a side by side, but I wore it about 10 years ago when it first came out. I don't get much similarity between them. To me, Mitsouko is musty, dry and clovey, and then I get the dried sweet peach and vanilla in it; 24 Faubourg is richly floral and ambery. My mother's current signature scent is 24 Faubourg and she drowns herself in the stuff. She's one of those elegant Hermes scarved ladies. The scent suits her, but sheesh, her heavy handedness with it has turned me off of it. It is so potent you really need a light hand, but I do think it's a beautiful fragrance. There's a golden solar quality to both scents, though, so I can see a similarity in that.

p.s. I see there's no mention of vanilla in the Mitsouko notes but I definitely detect something vanillic in there. I agree there is a certain formality about 24 Faubourg, which is probably why I never bought a second bottle. Mitsouko is a bit removed but not necessarily stiff and formal to me.
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post #6 of 13
11/27/06 at 2:49am
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Originally Posted by Paisley

I have a cautious relationship with Mitsouko and cannot get near 24, Faubourg, which is too rich and "eggy" for me in the same way Joy is. Or perhaps I am not grown up enough to appreciate it, but while Mitsouko has always seemed a bit bohemian and reckless, Faubourg seems the stuff of careful artifice, like a very constructed coiffure and a woman who'd not leave her maison without the de rigueur Hermes scarf (that never goes astray in a brisk wind). I think the trouble is a class relationship. I am a peasant in front of it and I don't find it effortlessly chic. The effort of it shows, it's like showplace full of greatly deliberated acquisitions and the manicure of old, very old, money. Plus, it wants a car and driver, or a barouche.

At least on my planet. Others wear it with ease and beauty.

ah , yes, old money - my money is so old, I can't remember what it looks like!
or where I put it ! (attempt at joke)
anyway, I am as always so impressed with the thought, care and detail of bnoter's responses.
you have given me much to think about as regards to my budding relationship with 24 faubourg. I did feel an elegance to it, but at the same time, I think of the Chanels I have tried as being elegant in a more aloof way, (I think someone described no 19, for example as silver and pearls) whereas 24 has so much golden warmth to it that it puts it into another realm for me.
I don't relate to the well to the coiffure and the scarf, but I do have a loving driver!( my honey)
Mitsouko has a bohemian feel to me perhaps only because I have now found anais nin's references to it in parts of her diary, making it all the more intriguing. But I still can't wear Mitsouko.
thanks for this detailed and imaginative description. fun to read!
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post #7 of 13
11/27/06 at 2:57am
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Originally Posted by sherrie11

I don't own 24 Faubourg so can't do a side by side, but I wore it about 10 years ago when it first came out. I don't get much similarity between them. To me, Mitsouko is musty, dry and clovey, and then I get the dried sweet peach and vanilla in it; 24 Faubourg is richly floral and ambery. My mother's current signature scent is 24 Faubourg and she drowns herself in the stuff. She's one of those elegant Hermes scarved ladies. The scent suits her, but sheesh, her heavy handedness with it has turned me off of it. It is so potent you really need a light hand, but I do think it's a beautiful fragrance. There's a golden solar quality to both scents, though, so I can see a similarity in that.

p.s. I see there's no mention of vanilla in the Mitsouko notes but I definitely detect something vanillic in there. I agree there is a certain formality about 24 Faubourg, which is probably why I never bought a second bottle. Mitsouko is a bit removed but not necessarily stiff and formal to me.

My daughter sniffed it and it was one of those that reminded her of Grandma, which she usually doesn't approve of on me. She prefers Aimez Moi and NR for Her, Hanae Mori, but hey, she is only 13, so her tastes of course are more contemporary. But I will say I tested only a modest spritz in the store and let the dry down speak to me for the rest of the afternoon and it was so compelling, warm and "solar" as you say. I can't stop thinking about this scent.

Goddess dreams, I am surprised you don't like it, if only because I usually feel pretty in sync with your tastes of other fragrances you have mentioned here. But it is interesting that you can't wear either Mitsouko or 24.

And Jag, thanks for the notes. There are some similarities in the top and heart. And probably that sandalwood in the base is part of the appeal for me.
I did smell some peach, too.
Anyway, the journey to understand 24 Faubourg has begun. If and when I go to Paris again, I will have to go to the actual place now, to enhance my experience with the perfume!
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post #8 of 13
11/27/06 at 6:32am
As always, an instructive journey through this post. How different we all are!

I would not have made a connection between 24 and Mitsouko either - and I love them both and have owned both. May just have to acquire 24 again.....

For me, ALL the Hermes scents feel raffine and Parisian - ALL Guerlains have a settled sense of history. (At least the ones I have tried - and who knows how much of this is predisposed by association?)

But it IS an ongoing journey and the answers are never the same because we're never the same from moment to moment...

What was the question?
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post #9 of 13
11/27/06 at 7:23am
I don't think there's a lot of similarities between Mitsouko and 24F, other than it can be a fruity scent on the mid-notes.
I love both, and i think 24F is fantastic, but i think also that it has a strong personality and can be too much for a lot of people.
Technically, i think all versions of 24F are great, but i can't wear the parfum concentration of 24F, and i even find the EDP a bit too strong for me, even if i love the smell of them, i prefer to wear the 24F eau délicat, wich goes smoothly and softer on my skin.
This is one of those scents that can wear you instead of you wearing it.
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post #10 of 13
11/27/06 at 7:52am
Oh, I love both Mitsouko and 24, Faubourg. The similarity I pick up is orange/peach+wood, and that is a winning combination on me. 24, Faubourg makes me flash back to the 1960s with its rich, heady, warm, woody, floral, orangey scent. It is elegant and enveloping, and it smells like the days when fragrance companies did not fear "big" scents. I was shocked when I discovered that it was launched in 1995. Mitsouko is woodier in a drier way. The wood smells like the inside of my mandolin, which is made of maple and spruce. The orange/peach notes stand apart, separate from the wood, whereas Faubourg is one, big blended scent. Two of my favorites.
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post #11 of 13
11/27/06 at 10:30am
Honestly, I don´t see much similarity with Mitsouko, at all. To me, 24, Faubourg, is a very much "flowerier" scent. Also more formal.
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post #12 of 13
12/1/06 at 7:12am
24 Faubourg is the french version Giorgio Beverly Hills. Still a longlasting and voluptuous floral, but less in-your-face, as it is soften with an amber base.

One of the top white florals IMHO.
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post #13 of 13
12/11/06 at 4:10pm
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my update to the journey down this road...(pun intended) is that I felt haunted so by the memory of its notes on my wrist that I ended up buying a bottle from our fancy local drugstore. and now, I can;'t wear even one spray of it! Let that be a lesson to me and to all... test more than ONCE!
I have placed this formal flower on my swaplist. She is too headstrong for the likes of me.
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